noun, verb, -cat⋅ed, -cat⋅ing.| 1. | a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate. |
| 2. | a combination of bankers or capitalists formed for the purpose of carrying out some project requiring large resources of capital, as the underwriting of an issue of stock or bonds. |
| 3. | Journalism.
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| 4. | a group, combination, or association of gangsters controlling organized crime or one type of crime, esp. in one region of the country. |
| 5. | a council or body of syndics. |
| 6. | a local organization of employers or employees in Italy during the Fascist regime. |
| 7. | to combine into a syndicate. |
| 8. | to publish simultaneously, or supply for simultaneous publication, in a number of newspapers or other periodicals in different places: Her column is syndicated in 120 papers. |
| 9. | Television. to sell (a program, series, etc.) directly to independent stations. |
| 10. | to sell shares in or offer participation in the financial sharing of (a risk venture, loan, or the like): to syndicate a racehorse among speculators; to syndicate a loan among several banks. |
| 11. | to combine to form a syndicate. |
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